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''The Creator/DavidCronenberg of video games.''

Edmund [=McMillen=] (born March 2, 1980) is an indie game creator and former comic author. Initially making a name for himself through Flash games on Website/{{Newgrounds}}, Ed saw his breakthrough when he and programmer Tommy Refenes, collectively known as Team Meat, released a commercial sequel dubbed ''Super Meat Boy''.

Since then, most of his work has been commercial releases, and he is now best-known for his even bigger breakthrough hit ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' and its expansions and further editions, which has become immensely popular with streamers.

!!Works by [=McMillen=] include:

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* ''This is a Cry for Help'' (High School years)
* ''The Backup Files of Freddy the Robot'' (2000)
* ''The Lonely Hermit'' (2001)
* ''Dead Baby Dressup'' (2001-2008)
* ''Carious Weltling'' (2003)
* ''Clubby the Seal'' (2004)
* ''VideoGame/{{Gish}}'' (2004)
* ''Thicker Than Water'' (2004)
* ''Blast Miner'' (2006)
* ''VideoGame/{{Triachnid}}'' (2006)
* ''Cereus Peashy'' (2007)
* ''Host'' (2007)
* ''Guppy'' (2007)
* ''VideoGame/{{Coil}}'' (2008)
* ''VideoGame/MeatBoy'' (2008)
* ''Cunt'' (2008)
* ''VideoGame/{{Aether}}'' (2008)
* ''VideoGame/GreyMatter'' (2008)
* ''AVGM'' (2009)
* ''VideoGame/{{Spewer}}'' (2009)
* ''VideoGame/TimeFcuk'' (2009)
* ''Super Meat Boy'', (2010), the non-flash sequel to ''Meat Boy''.
* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' (2011)
** ''Wrath of the Lamb'' DLC (2012)
* ''The Basement Collection'' (2012), a boxset of his older Flash games, comics, and misc. art, with most of the games receiving expanded content[[labelnote:Contents]]Triachnid, Coil, Meat Boy, Meat Boy map pack, Aether, Grey Matter, Spewer, Time Fcuk, The Lonely Hermit, AVGM, Thicker Than Water, Carious Weltling, Clubby the Seal, Carious Weltling 2, Dumpling, misc. drawings, Q+A sessions, tech demos, soundtracks[[/labelnote]]
* ''[[http://imfacist.com/ Facist!]]'' (2014)
* ''The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth'' (2014), a "re-quel" featuring a new, 16-bit art style and new content.
** ''Afterbirth'' DLC (2015)
** ''Afterbirth✝'' DLC (2017, received free updates up to 2018)
** ''[[VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaacAntibirth Repentance]]'' DLC (2021, [[ScheduleSlip originally planned to release in 2019]], currently receiving free updates)
* ''Fingered'' (2015)
* ''VideoGame/TheEndIsNigh'' (2017)
* ''The Legend of Bum-bo'' (2019)
* ''The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls'' (2018), a physical card game.
* ''VideoGame/MewGenics'' (Sometime in 2024), a unique game summed up as a "Cat Lady Simulator".
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!!Tropes commonly employed
* BlackComedy: A lot of Meat Boy's cutscenes, and almost all of Isaac. A lot of his older flash games, too.
* BodyHorror: A lot of his works runs on this trope.
* TheCameo: Often times characters from his other games will make crossover appearances.
* CanonWelding: Apparently, Time Fcuk and Isaac are highly related, and Steven may even be Isaac. This just complicates things more.
* CreatorThumbprint: Putting fetuses or fetus imagery in his games, as seen from the BigBad in ''Super Meat Boy'', the title character in ''Spewer'', a lot of the monsters and imagery in ''The Binding of Isaac'', and pretty much the entirety of ''Coil''.
* MindScrew: The amount varies depending on the game, but just ''try'' to piece together what The Binding of Isaac's plot ''really'' is. Coil and Time Fcuk are other major examples.
* NightmareFetishist: Apparently since he was a kid, if his biographical comic "Thicker Than Water" is anything to go by.
* SurrealHorror: Some of his games, but ''especially'' his trailers, done by James Id.
* ToiletHumour: A recurring motif ever since his first games and animations.
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->[[TheStinger Edmund McMillen,]] [[MemeticMutation you litte f**ker.]]