The mummified variants of the Leaper that are seen in the events of Dead Space 3 seem to be a fusion of multiple corpses, rather than the being composed of a singular corpse. They also retain scraps of the clothing they wore in life. Instead of massive fangs, a multitude of fingers have sprouted from around their mouths similar supernumerary limbs and digits have grown seemingly at random from their bodies. In Dead Space 3, the mummified Leapers-like most of the mummified Necromorphs-bear unique and bizarre mutations not seen in their “fresher” peers. The lower jaw is split into two curved mandibles ending in knife-like fangs. In their place is a pair of multi-jointed appendages that bear sharp, bony fangs. The upper sets of teeth are completely gone, along with most of the palate reaching back into the throat. The cranial and sinus areas of the skull appear to have been dis-articulated from the neck, and the jaws have become heavily mutated. The Leaper uses its powerful tail to quickly launch the creature toward its victims or uses it to stab into its enemies in a similar fashion as a scorpion, as seen with Warren Eckhardt. This tail is highly flexible, able to contract and coil into about a third of its original length. The legs are completely re-shaped: the muscle and bone is flayed, fused together, and lengthened into a single limb tipped with a sharp blade of considerable weight and durability. There is a slight lengthening of the vertebral ridges, and the flexibility of the spinal column is increased to help in locomotion. The musculature of the upper arm becomes more developed, and the fingers grow bladed claws for climbing and slashing with the hands becoming dislocated along with the thumbs moved to the back to create animal-like paws. Leapers appear to be made from a single human corpse, with the host body's modifications serving to give the Necromorph vastly increased mobility. Ĭoncept art of the Leaper in Dead Space (2023).Ī SCAF guide showing a Leaper on Tau Volantis. his mouth, but it can't, uh, accommodate the-Oh shit, his head is splitting open too, like Clifton's-I can't-' -An Aegis VII Colony doctor describing the creation of a Leaper by the Marker signal. Shit, several, ah, jaw-like appendages are. His jaw is clenching and unclenching, it's. His legs are elongating, somehow flaying themselves? And they're twisting with a m-mixture of his own. Hogan is also transforming, but it's not the. um, spatter on the glass is making observation difficult.

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