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*Gelatinous cube<br />Expands to fit any space<br />There is always room. | *Gelatinous cube<br />Expands to fit any space<br />There is always room. | ||
*Weapons, armor, bones<br />Like grapes in Jell-o salad<br />Remain suspended.|defense=2}} | *Weapons, armor, bones<br />Like grapes in Jell-o salad<br />Remain suspended.|defense=2}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|General Bruise|*General Bruise didn't change his name to Bruise until he was promoted to his current rank. Before that, he was Colonel Sprain. | |||
*Before his promotion to Colonel, he went by Master Sergeant Rugburn. | |||
*Even earlier than that, people called him Private Hangnail.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|General Bruise (true form)|*It's very hard to surprise General Bruise when he's in this form, because four-armed is forewarned. | |||
*If General Bruise gets excited about something, his applause is deafening. | |||
*General Bruise rarely gets excited, though, because it's pretty dissatisfying to only be able to eat vertical foods.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|generic duck|*The generic duck has all the cleaning power of a brand-name duck, at a fraction of the price! | {{ManuelEntry|generic duck|*The generic duck has all the cleaning power of a brand-name duck, at a fraction of the price! | ||
*Look, all ducks do not look the same, okay? That's species-ist. This duck has a name, and its name is Reginald Von Quacksmont. | *Look, all ducks do not look the same, okay? That's species-ist. This duck has a name, and its name is Reginald Von Quacksmont. | ||
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*The ghastly organist's favorite pipe is the one he keeps hidden behind the organ's keyboard, for between-set smokes. | *The ghastly organist's favorite pipe is the one he keeps hidden behind the organ's keyboard, for between-set smokes. | ||
*The ghastly organist's mask only covers half of his face, but when he takes it off, at least 75% of his face is all messed up. We're not sure how that works.|attack=110|defense=99|hp=120|image=phantom.gif}} | *The ghastly organist's mask only covers half of his face, but when he takes it off, at least 75% of his face is all messed up. We're not sure how that works.|attack=110|defense=99|hp=120|image=phantom.gif}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|ghost (Spelunky)|*Nobody knows what the ghost is the ghost of. It's not shaped like anything anybody recognizes. | |||
*The ghost's only job is to chase spelunkers, but it does some work as a jeweler on the side. | |||
*The ghost enjoys hot lava baths, but his doctor said not to spend more than 10 or 15 minutes in lava at a stretch.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|ghost|*These pesky creatures are actually the ghosts of stomped-on Goombas, which explains why there's always so many of them. Why, you're probably partially at fault yourself! | {{ManuelEntry|ghost|*These pesky creatures are actually the ghosts of stomped-on Goombas, which explains why there's always so many of them. Why, you're probably partially at fault yourself! | ||
*These ghosts don't drop red pixels because the red pixels are used for the fire, and burn off before they can be collected. | *These ghosts don't drop red pixels because the red pixels are used for the fire, and burn off before they can be collected. | ||
*Don't forget to whip the candles! The little flames are actually ghost eggs!|defense=67}} | *Don't forget to whip the candles! The little flames are actually ghost eggs!|defense=67}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|ghost actor|*Most ghosts smell like farts. Like real sulphurous hard-boiled egg farts. | {{ManuelEntry|ghost actor|*Most ghosts smell like farts. Like real sulphurous hard-boiled egg farts. | ||
*The ghosts that don't smell like farts all smell like polyurethane. | *The ghosts that don't smell like farts all smell like polyurethane. | ||
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*The nose-hairs pulled by these tweezers are large enough to be used as rope. | *The nose-hairs pulled by these tweezers are large enough to be used as rope. | ||
*I hope you didn't lick that rope.}} | *I hope you didn't lick that rope.}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|giant potato|*Potato Council fun fact: Potatoes belong to the nightshade family, which loves them more than your family loves you. | |||
*Potato Council fun fact: While the tubers of potatoes are very nutritious, the stems and leaves can cause acute solanine poisoning. You should go eat a bunch of them and find out what that feels like. | |||
*Potato Council fun fact: Potatoes are 99.9% fat free. Too bad the same can't be said about your mom.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|giant potato snake|*Snakes usually can't afford to be vegetarians. When an upper-middle-class snake decides to take a stand on this matter, though, they never stop talking about it. | |||
*Potatoes gives snakes almost all of the nutrition they need, and they could live on them indefinitely as long as they also drink a little bit of milk (or eat a small mammal) at least once a month. | |||
*If you skin one of these things, you could end up with a nice snack as well as a cool belt.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|giant rubber spider|*The webs of giant rubber spiders are harvested and used to make badminton rackets. | {{ManuelEntry|giant rubber spider|*The webs of giant rubber spiders are harvested and used to make badminton rackets. | ||
*Spiders are not technically insects, but you'd sound like a real dork if you tried to explain that to somebody. | *Spiders are not technically insects, but you'd sound like a real dork if you tried to explain that to somebody. | ||
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*You can't really tell it from the picture, but the skeelton has three rows of teeth. No one's sure how the middle one is attached. | *You can't really tell it from the picture, but the skeelton has three rows of teeth. No one's sure how the middle one is attached. | ||
*The proper plural of "patella" is "patellae," or possibly "paella."}} | *The proper plural of "patella" is "patellae," or possibly "paella."}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|giant snake|*According to the Guiness Book of World Records, the world's largest snake is a real jerk, just a big old nincompoop who probably couldn't even manage to find its own back half with a flashlight and a map. | |||
*Just a huge dummy. My God what an absolute dogshow of a snake. Terrible. Couldn't perform the basic operations of editing a records book, even with a gun to its head. | |||
*If only Sheila would take a few minutes to really, I mean really think about how dumb that snake is, she'd come back to me. I just know it.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|giant spider|*The giant spiders are the great-great-great-great-granddaddy-longlegs of the spiders in the modern Sleazy Back Alley. | {{ManuelEntry|giant spider|*The giant spiders are the great-great-great-great-granddaddy-longlegs of the spiders in the modern Sleazy Back Alley. | ||
*Giant spiders are no more poisonous than small spiders, but they do have lots more of the poison to spread around. | *Giant spiders are no more poisonous than small spiders, but they do have lots more of the poison to spread around. | ||
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*If you don't understand why this might be the case, ask a flibbertigibbet. | *If you don't understand why this might be the case, ask a flibbertigibbet. | ||
*Canadian flappers refer to drinking alcohol as "wheezing the juice." Things ''really'' got mixed up in that particular crossing.}} | *Canadian flappers refer to drinking alcohol as "wheezing the juice." Things ''really'' got mixed up in that particular crossing.}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|goblin king's shadow|*If the goblin king sees its shadow, you get thrown in the dungeon for six more weeks. | |||
*If you're only looking at the shadow of a goblin, it's hard to tell if it's wearing a crown or just a Bart Simpson mask. | |||
*In the shadow of the goblin king, it's too dark to read, but that doesn't matter because he outlawed books in his kingdom anyway.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|goblodocus|*The "diplo" in diplodocus comes from the Greek word for "double." This is because the guy who named the diplodocus was really drunk. | {{ManuelEntry|goblodocus|*The "diplo" in diplodocus comes from the Greek word for "double." This is because the guy who named the diplodocus was really drunk. | ||
*Whenever a diplodocus eats something, it has to change its name to include whatever it ate. The same drunk guy also made up this rule. | *Whenever a diplodocus eats something, it has to change its name to include whatever it ate. The same drunk guy also made up this rule. | ||
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*Demonic hellseals have a rough life, as there aren't any demonic penguins for them to eat. | *Demonic hellseals have a rough life, as there aren't any demonic penguins for them to eat. | ||
*Tamer demonic hellseals perform twice daily in the marine wildlife show at the marine theme park of the damned in Hey Deze.|defense=180}} | *Tamer demonic hellseals perform twice daily in the marine wildlife show at the marine theme park of the damned in Hey Deze.|defense=180}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|Gorgolok, the Infernal Seal (The Nemesis' Lair)|*Gorgolok went to great pains to learn English, because banter is a vital part of every evil villain's aresenal. | {{ManuelEntry|Gorgolok, the Infernal Seal (The Nemesis' Lair)|*Gorgolok went to great pains to learn English, because banter is a vital part of every evil villain's aresenal. | ||
*Unexpectedly, Gorgolok's favorite color is robin's egg blue. | *Unexpectedly, Gorgolok's favorite color is robin's egg blue. | ||
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*Gorgolok's infernal seal oil is sought after by merchants who make self-lighting lamps. | *Gorgolok's infernal seal oil is sought after by merchants who make self-lighting lamps. | ||
*Gorgolok's fangs are just long enough to give him a little bit of a lisp, which makes his doom-y proclamations all the more comical.|defense=166}} | *Gorgolok's fangs are just long enough to give him a little bit of a lisp, which makes his doom-y proclamations all the more comical.|defense=166}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|Gorgolok, the Infernal Seal (Inner Sanctum)|*Gorgolok's name is from the ancient language of the frigid northlands, and translates roughly to "Run, you idiot!" | |||
*Gorgolok's temperament is worsened by the fact that a seal clubber stole his bucket long ago, and he wants it back. | |||
*Gorgolok worked briefly as a Crimbo seal before giving into his evil destiny.|defense=24}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Goth Giant|*The Goth Giant's favorite band is She Stubbed My Soul. | {{ManuelEntry|Goth Giant|*The Goth Giant's favorite band is She Stubbed My Soul. | ||
*Although when he's particularly depressed, only the icy synths of Sanguinatus Luciferi will do. | *Although when he's particularly depressed, only the icy synths of Sanguinatus Luciferi will do. | ||
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*Y'know, zmobies are always talking about how much they want brrraaains, but then you get a hoard of them and they start chewing on people's arms and legs and intestines. Amiright? | *Y'know, zmobies are always talking about how much they want brrraaains, but then you get a hoard of them and they start chewing on people's arms and legs and intestines. Amiright? | ||
*Loathing zmobies can't transmit their zmobieism through biting, only through a long and tedious written exam.}} | *Loathing zmobies can't transmit their zmobieism through biting, only through a long and tedious written exam.}} | ||
{{ManuelEntry|gravy slime|*In Dutch, gravy is spelled gravè, and the joke there is that there's a grave accent on the e. | |||
*75% of the world's gravy supply is consumed in the form of poutine. | |||
*75% of the world's medical budget is spent on cardiac care for poutine consumers.}} | |||
{{ManuelEntry|Grease Trapper|*Besides the natural animal fats and oils he sells, he also makes a lot of money trapping margaraffes, oleophants, and criscougars. | {{ManuelEntry|Grease Trapper|*Besides the natural animal fats and oils he sells, he also makes a lot of money trapping margaraffes, oleophants, and criscougars. | ||
*He also does a brisk trade in rhinoceros horns, but the less said about that the better. | *He also does a brisk trade in rhinoceros horns, but the less said about that the better. |
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References
- The ganger's third entry is a reference to the single 99 Problems.
- The ghost miner's entry about living in a cabin in a canyon until his daughter drowned is a reference to the folk song "Oh My Darling, Clementine"
- The gnarly gnome named Barkley is a reference to Gnarls Barkley.
- The entry about Gorgolok having his bucket stolen is a reference to the "LOLrus" meme, which involves image macros of an elephant seal either playing with a bucket or complaining that his bucket was stolen.
- The Grass Elemental entries about hitchhiking in the 1960s and being stronger than they were in your parents' day is a play on "grass" being a slang term for cannabis. The entry about playing ball is a play on the saying "If there's grass on the field, play ball".
- The entries for the hat-wearing guard turtles describing ones with red shells, ones with green shells, and ones with wings reference the Koopa Troopas from the original Super Mario Bros., which came in red-shelled, green-shelled, and winged varieties. The line about them not knowing ninjutsu is a reference to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
- The reference to hipster music in the description of the guy with a pitchfork, and his wife is a reference to the indie music review website Pitchfork.