# Pet Peeve -- Big Underground Monsters **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2022, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeve-big-underground-monsters/967943 "2022-07-14T12:37:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeve-big-underground-monsters/967943/61 "2022-07-15T21:59:11Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > I’m still waiting for SyFy to give me call to hear my [Fatberg Apocalypse](https://www.straightdope.com/21344470/is-the-fatberg-apocalypse-upon-us) movie idea. > > A fatberg becomes sentient due to bio-neuro-stuff from a lab being flushed down the drain. City-wide damage and heroic acts ensue. > > Take that giant ants, dragons and what-not. - Easily destroyed by fire-fighting planes dropping Dawn dishwashing liquid. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2022, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeve-big-underground-monsters/967943/62 "2022-07-15T22:07:01Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > And unless you’re in some comparative rarity like Mammoth Cave, most caves are pretty small and cramped, with bottlenecks preventing free movement. I don’t discount most of your premise but I think this bit here might not be right. Mammoth is rare, maybe, among _discovered_ caves, but who knows how many other larger caves are out there yet undiscovered? ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2022, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeve-big-underground-monsters/967943/63 "2022-07-15T22:18:08Z")
During the Ice Ages, there were cave lions, cave bears, and even cave hyaenas. I suppose they did most, or all, of their hunting outside the cave, but you wouldn’t want to meet one if you were down there to do a bit of petrography. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2022, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeve-big-underground-monsters/967943/64 "2022-07-16T03:31:57Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > That one was presumably brought there by Jabba, and kept alive by being fed people Jabba wanted to make an example of. Sarlaccs can live for tens of thousands of years but hutts for perhaps 1000. Jabba was 606 years, old [([Hutt | Wookieepedia | Fandom](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Hutt)). A sarlacc seems like it would be difficult to relocate, once established. If you’d have told me last night I’d spend quite a long time reading about hutts today, I’d have laughed in your face. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2022, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeve-big-underground-monsters/967943/65 "2022-07-16T04:11:42Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > With a quick glance at the topmost wiki preview box there Darren, that thing sure looks like some hideous _Tremors_ critter _Tremors_ is from 1990, the _V_ episode from 1984. The _Tremors_ creature looks like a crivit. (And the person being killed [looks Time Lord](https://youtube.com/watch?v=d5Ggc9wVd_A).) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2022, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeve-big-underground-monsters/967943/66 "2022-07-16T04:14:10Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > I’m still waiting for SyFy to give me call to hear my [Fatberg Apocalypse](https://www.straightdope.com/21344470/is-the-fatberg-apocalypse-upon-us) movie idea. > **[Fatberg](https://whatwedointheshadows.fandom.com/wiki/Fatberg)** > > "Fatberg" is the sixth episode of the third series of Wellington Paranormal, and the nineteenth episode overall. It aired on 31 March 2021. When a large, congealed blob of fat in the Wellington sewers becomes sentient, Minogue and O'Leary go... ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2022, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeve-big-underground-monsters/967943/67 "2022-07-16T14:05:04Z")
OK, so maybe the sarlacc was put there by Jabba’s ancestors, or maybe it’s still a relatively young specimen. However it got there originally, it’s certainly surviving now by being actively fed by Jabba. Lots of things can survive in environments they’re not evolutionarily suited for, with the intervention of sapient, technological creatures. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pet-peeve-big-underground-monsters/967943.md?page=3)