Scissors
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This article is about the item. For a similar looking item, see The Pinking Shears. For the trinket, see Safety Scissors.
Scissors is an unlockable activated item.
Effects
- Detaches Isaac's head from his body and turns the head into a stationary familiar that fires tears for the current room.
- The player still controls Isaac's headless body, which also shoots tears.
The body constantly spews a controllable fountain of blood shots, dealing about 0.66x-1.01x damage.
- The blood fountain can be aimed in any direction like
Analog Stick.
- The blood fountain can be aimed in any direction like
The tears fired by the head do not scale with Isaac's damage and always do 3.5 damage.
- The head's tears are affected by Isaac's stats and attack modifiers.
- The player still controls Isaac's headless body, which also shoots tears.
Notes
- Can spawn multiple heads if used in the same room more than once.
- Only the most recent head is able to fire.
-
Brimstone and 
Technology are not fired from the stationary head. - If Isaac has an invisible body due to the cosmetic effect of
Transcendence, only a shadow will be seen after using the Scissors. - If Isaac is Blindfolded, the floating head can still fire tears.
- The floating head does nothing as
Lilith, 
Tainted Lilith, and 
Tainted Forgotten.
- As
The Forgotten, the floating head will only fire tears when the Soul is active. - The floating head will not fire tears as
Tainted Samson while he is enraged.
- As
Each wave of 
Boss Rush fully recharges the item, allowing many heads to be spawned.- Only deaths which end runs (i.e. Isaac is not revived by a revival item such as
1up!) count towards unlocking the Scissors.
Synergies
Book of Virtues: Spawns red wisps in the middle ring. The wisps fire 2-3 tears at a time, which are inaccurate, travel in an arc, and have variable range.-
Epic Fetus / 
Marked: Blood fountain from the body will aim at the crosshair. 
The Ludovico Technique: Blood fountain from the body will aim at the controlled tear.
Interactions
The Pinking Shears: If Scissors and Pinking Shears are used together, control is given back to an invisible head with only a shadow visible as both the head and body are mobilized to attack.
BFFS!: The loose head won't become larger, but will deal double damage.
Box of Friends: No effect.
Car Battery: No effect.
In-game Footage
Gallery
3DS The icon of Scissors as seen on the lower 3DS screen
Trivia
- This item is very likely a reference to the English idiom "running with scissors", which means to "willfully act in a reckless, foolish, and/or dangerous manner", alluding to the literal act of running with a pair of scissors in one's hand, which can cause severe injury, thus the item's effect and unlock condition.
- In original flash version of The Binding of Isaac, dying 100 times unlocked The Pinking Shears.
 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
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