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Due to the cutesy art style, most things that aren't flat-out Body Horror fall into this.

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    Playable Characters 
  • Blue Baby, a corpse with cartoony X-eyes who can poop on command.
  • Azazel, a winged demon who can spit blood lasers from his mouth.
    • Tainted Azazel, who has had his wings and horn ripped off, but now has a very cute sneeze.
  • The Lost, a wisp-like ghost.
    • Tainted Lost, who has a cobweb on his head. A mod exists to give him a cat smile and ears.
  • Lilith, another demon with gouged-out eyes and a little demonic familiar to fight for her.
    • Tainted Lilith, who can now attack using her unborn demon child.
  • Apollyon, a horned statue-creature with Empty Eyes.
  • The Forgotten, a walking skeleton with his spirit still chained to his body.
    • Tainted Forgotten, who is now permanently in ghost form and has a Badass Cape.
  • Esau, who appears to be skinless and is depicted as being unwillingly dragged along by Jacob.
    • Dark Esau, who is a spirit with flaming hair and a fanged smile.

    Bosses 
  • Dingle, Dangle and Brownie, who are all happy living poops. Dingle and Dangle even give a Not-So-Innocent Whistle as part of their attacks.
  • The Gurglings and Turdlings, walking piles of organs or poop with smiling faces.
  • Baby Plum, a fat red fly with big eyes and a tooth.
  • Little Horn, a small demon with a cute little fang and a habit of blowing himself up.
  • The Haunt, who is a big Bedsheet Ghost... Until he takes off his mask.
  • The Rainmaker, a stitched-up ghost with a flamboyant personality that makes him quite endearing.
  • Min-Min, a tiny flame ghost who hides from you inside the Husk's corpse.
  • Chub and CHAD, who are both happy, smiling, giant maggots.
  • Gurdy and Gurdy Jr, both piles of organs with a little happy face on top.
  • Big Horn, a giant demon who's fiercely protective of his little brother.
  • War, who periodically falls over and makes Puppy-Dog Eyes at you.
  • Hornfel, another small demon who taunts you throughout the fight and bursts into tears when defeated.
  • Singe, a little humanoid creature who attacks with explosive farts.
  • Loki, a four-armed demon with a constant Cheshire Cat Grin.
  • The Siren, a Cute Monster Girl who has More Teeth than the Osmond Family.
  • The Horny Boys, a stitched amalgamation of Loki and Hornfel with a massive amount of personality.
  • Blastocyst, a giant cell with a face.
  • Triachnid, a three-legged spider with a permanent Puppy-Dog Eye.
  • Lokii, a bisected Loki who looks just as happy as the original.
  • Krampus, a fluffy-looking fanged monster.
  • Dogma's first form, which looks like a baby made out of static.

     Items and Trinkets 
  • Dark Bum, a demon familiar that eats hearts... But only to turn them into a more useful type of heart.
  • Lil Spewer, a worm-like creature that pukes on the floor, and makes an adorable noise when doing so.
  • Incubus, another demon familiar with big, glowing red eyes.
  • The Intruder, a happy-looking spider is oddly endearing, at least after it leaves Isaac to attack on its own. Before that point, however…
  • Maw of the Void, which gives Isaac a happy smile with More Teeth than the Osmond Family and red eyes.
  • Brimstone, which gives giant black eyes and horns.
  • Lil Brimstone, which looks like the Brimstone costume but with a happy expression.
  • Worm Friend, a tentacle that attacks enemies for you. Its icon is even surrounded by little hearts.
  • Blood Puppy, a blood-covered worm with a cat smile that attacks you once it kills enough enemies.


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