

Later, when the dam broke, the two reptiles went swimming on the wall of water that was slowly approaching towards the escaping masses and pulled down Manny when he was swimming to save Ellie. Cretaceous made a great lunge at Manny, but his jaws were caught on his tusks, only to be flung far off as he twisted his head to throw the predator, hitting a piece of ice and falling back into the water on his way.
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The two sea reptiles then swam further down the series of rivers where they eventually reached Manny's herd as well as Crash, Eddie, and Ellie. When they made it to the ice lake, the first animal that they had encountered and eaten was Stu, leaving behind only his shell. The ice melted, releasing both him and Maelstrom into the lake which was all but abandoned by most animals. He is shown in the beginning frozen in a great block of ice that was jarred loose when the wall of ice began crumbling. Only Cretaceous will appear as a boss in this game, excluding Maesltrom.Ĭretaceous and Maelstrom appear as bosses that Scrat must defeat in the middle of an ice floe.Ĭretaceous is a slender purple Ichthyosaur. After escaping from Cretaceous, Scrat is engulfed by Maelstrom and must travel through his digestive system to escape. In the novelization, it is revealed that their remains were eaten by The Lone Gunslinger and the vultures for cheating to eating animals for food.Ĭretaceous and Maelstrom briefly appear as two display replicas when Scrat arrives at a natural history museum in the modern era.Īt the beginning of the story, Ellie shows in her cave paintings Cretaceous and Maelstrom chasing the herd in the middle of the flood.Ĭretaceous only will spawn as an enemy chasing Scrat in the ice river phase. This causes the giant rock to fall down and crush the two vicious reptiles to death in the process, while avenging Stu, whom they had eaten after thawing out. However, Manny tricks them into hitting a log wedged beside a large rock. When Manny and his friends went to rescue Ellie, Cretaceous and Maelstrom appeared and tried to eat them, starting with Manny, who was in the water trying to save Ellie. They later appear again in the film when Ellie is trapped in a cave during the rising flood. Although they almost lost their lives, the heroes successfully managed to escape from the two predators. Cretaceous wanted to eat Manny only because he was the biggest animal in the whole herd, while Maelstrom attacked Sid and Diego when they get separated from the others. They made one scene in the film when they occasionally tried to eat Manny, Sid, Diego, Ellie, Crash, and Eddie when they were crossing a frozen area of water. Their first victim upon defrosting was Fast Tony's unintelligent Glyptodon sidekick named Stu, who was testing his snorkeler too close to them.

2.2 The Ice Age Adventures of Buck WildĬretaceous and Maelstrom were first seen thawing out in a melting pack of ice.
