Scissors

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 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.

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.
• 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.
• C Section: C Section tears are fired from the body instead of the head. This makes the head do nothing, but the item still provides a benefit as the body will fire both the C Section tears and the blood fountain from Scissors.

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Gallery

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  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.

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