The Territory Can (?) Is a powerful weapon created by the Mandrill Alien for the purpose of brainwashing humans to make them easier to collect.
Appearance[]
The Territory Can is a giant soda can with the words "ponzu" on its side, and a drawing of a monkey in the center. It is incredibly large in size, seemingly the same size as an entire school building.
Overview[]
The Territory Can is a gigantic can shaped weapon that, once activated, casts a 100 km wide area of affect that traps everyone who enters in a game of tag. When one person touches the Can, they are trapped inside a can that leaves only their arms and legs exposed, the Canned person will then chase after non-Canned people and tag them to spread the Canning effect. Once enough subjects are Canned, Mandrill makes them enter his ship so he can use them as test subjects.
Despite its massive size, the Can is not unstoppable, as shown when Momo managed to topple it off of the schools roof, the force of the fall combined with the Can's own weight and gravity were enough to destroy it. This also reversed the Canned victims and may have caused them to forget the event even happened at all.
History[]
Profoundly Mysterious Kick-the-Can Battle![]
After she and Okarun had a small fight, Momo was sitting in class when the Mandrill Alien suddenly appeared and started rapid fire launching cans at her. During the fight she was launched out a window, which is when she first saw the Territory Can perched on a corner of the school's roof. While Momo and Okarun ran away from the Can zombies, Mandrill explained the Can and its purpose as a powerful radius based weapon, he also overstates the Cans delicate nature, asking Momo and Okarun not to hit it.
This is later revealed to be a trap, as touching the Can in any way shape or form will result in the toucher being turned into a Can zombie. However, Momo uses her quick thinking to devise a strategy for destroying the Can. By hurting Mandrill's pride and goating him to launch more of his cans at her, she deflects them into a load column. Once the column is destroyed, the corner the Can was precariously stationed on cracks under the Can's weight, causing it to fall and break apart, destroying it and reversing its effects.
Trivia[]
- Despite being modeled after a soda can, Ponzu, what the can is labeled as, traditionally comes in bottles as it is more often used a a sauce rather than a drink.
- Every person Canned by the Territory Can had a unique can.
- Every Canned zombie, Can ammunition the Mandrill launched, and the Territory Can itself, were all opened.