If Great Gideon is fought outside of Mines or Ashpit via a IV - The Emperor? card, he has preset waves consisting of Frowning Gapers, Wall Creeps, Round Worms, Gurgles, and Suckers. According to NotYourSagittarius, this is a direct reference to Scott Pilgrim, a series of graphic novels. The crawl space that opens up when using Chaos Card on Gideon is titled 'Gideon's Grave' in the game's code. Great Gideon is one of the only bosses with a unique health bar, aside from Dogma. The name Gideon is said to mean “hewer” which is an individual who works in a mine breaking stone. Great Gideon's name likely comes from Gideon, an Old Testament prophet and military leader known for winning a decisive battle against an overwhelming Midianite army with only an army of 300 Israelites. He is the boss version of Stone Grimaces. The waves themselves contain no extra enemies. Vanishing Twin will duplicate Great Gideon and increase the number of waves by 2. Completing waves will not charge active items. Great Gideon has a unique animation for being defeated via the Chaos Card. This can be done at any time, even if he has already been defeated as his deactivated body still remains after returning to the room. 
Doing so reveals a unique 1x2 Crawl Space beneath him, containing two locked chests, two items and a key.
Great Gideon can be instantly killed with Chaos Card. Gideon does not spawn the next enemy wave during the middle of any of his attacks and only progresses a wave once he has finished.Īfter Isaac defeats all 6 waves of monsters, Great Gideon will deactivate, similar to a regular Grimace.Ĭoncept art for Great Gideon. There is always at least 1 gap between the trail of holes created by this attack as to not completely trap Isaac on either end of the room. After the beginning of the 4th wave, Great Gideon charges up and releases a rock wave down the center of the room, breaking parts of the floor and leaving gaps. Some enemies caught in this attack are turned into their flaming versions: Rock Spider into Coal Spider, Clotty into Grilled Clotty and Gyro into Grilled Gyro. Charges up then spits large flame projectiles down the center of the arena that can occasionally leave small fires behind. The center projectile is larger and splits into 8 projectiles in a radial burst when it lands or hits something. Spits 5 projectiles in a cone shape towards Isaac. It also pulls in additional rock projectiles. Creates a vacuum that affects the whole room, pulling in Isaac and all monsters and monster projectiles. 
He uses the following attacks during these waves: Instead, Isaac must battle 6 waves of monsters to beat him, similar to Greed Mode waves. Great Gideon is always fought in a vertical double-size room and additionally has no health.
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