The Bloat

The Bloat is a boss that can appear in Necropolis and: • All environments of Chapter 4 (Womb, Utero, Scarred Womb). • The Utero. Contents • 1 Behavior • 2 Champion Versions • 3 Gallery • 4 Notes • 5 Trivia • 6 Bugs

• Unlike Peep, The Bloat's eyes are dislocated at the start of the fight.
• The Bloat's eyeballs float diagonally, bouncing off of walls, and do not take damage. They block Isaac's tears and inflict contact damage.
• Performs a small jump in place and fires eight projectiles in all directions.
• Unlike Peep's, The Bloat's projectiles are always shot in the same orientation.
• Creates large puddles of Red Creep.
• Jumps into the air and travels a moderate distance in Isaac's direction, leaving a small puddle of Red Creep and sending out a ring of eight projectiles upon landing.
• Fires 2 Brimstone lasers below him or to both sides of him, depending on Isaac's location.
• He can not perform this attack upwards. The Bloat deals a whole heart of contact damage.

Green: Fires 2 greenish-red/ green Ipecac projectiles instead of blood shots when performing a small jump, and 3 when jumping off-screen. Spawns 2 Chargers whenever he creates large puddles of Creep. Creates Green Creep instead of Red Creep.

• The Bloat's eyes can be destroyed with Chaos Card, Euthanasia, God's Flesh, or Little Horn.

• The Bloat was added in the Wrath of the Lamb DLC for the original The Binding of Isaac.
• He is the posthumous version of Peep.
• Bloat is a medical condition in which the stomach becomes overstretched by excessive gas content.
• Corpses also bloat during decomposition due to the excessive build-up of gas-releasing bacteria.
• The Bloat's eyeballs look slightly different than Peep's.
• The Bloat's eyeballs are now very different than Peep's.
• Aprils Fool (challenge #32) replaces all bosses with The Bloat as a reference to the exceptional hatred some fans express towards this boss.
• The Bloat also appears as a miniboss in Mewgenics.