The Fallen

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The Fallen is a boss that can appear on any main path Chapter, with the prerequisite that Isaac has entered (not just encountered) a Devil RoomDevil Room through any methods, and with the following exceptions:

  • It cannot appear on floors with predetermined bosses such as Boss Mom ingame.pngMom, Boss Mom's Heart ingame.pngMom's Heart, Boss Isaac ingame.pngIsaac, etc.
  • (in Repentance and Repentance+) It also cannot appear on any of the alternate Chapters added in Repentance.

It is also encountered as the first phase of the Boss Satan ingame.pngSatan battle.

Behavior

Phase 1

The Fallen moves randomly around the room in cardinal directions and can perform the following attacks:

  • Fires 3 projectiles in a spread followed by 4 projectiles in a spread in succession towards Isaac.
  • Increases its speed and chases Isaac. After taking a certain amount of damage, it halts and fires a Collectible Brimstone icon.pngBrimstone laser in each cardinal direction.

Phase 2

  • At 50% health, The Fallen splits into two smaller versions of itself. The two clones have identical behaviour.
    • It is possible to avoid the split if the Fallen takes a single hit doing more than 50% damage that causes poisoning or burning as the final one.

The Fallen deals a whole heart of contact damage in both phases.

Gallery

Notes

  • Unlike other bosses, the item pool of the Fallen room is the Devil Room item pool.
    • (in Rebirth)Leaving and re-entering the room will change the item pool to the normal Boss Room item pool.
  • The Fallen can appear on the first floor during a Victory Lap if a Devil Room was entered during the previous lap. Even more rarely, it is possible to encounter him on a normal run if the first level was rerolled with Collectible Forget Me Now icon.pngForget Me Now or a 5-pip Dice RoomDice Room after visiting the Devil Room by teleporting with a JokerJoker card, a Red Chest.pngRed Chest, or similar methods.

Trivia

  • The Fallen appeared in the Halloween Update for the original The Binding of Isaac.
  • Under normal circumstances, the Fallen is one of six bosses (the other five being Boss Conquest ingame.pngConquest, Boss Headless Horseman ingame.pngHeadless Horseman, Boss Krampus ingame.pngKrampus, (in Repentance and Repentance+) Boss Baby Plum ingame.pngBaby Plum if spared, and (in Repentance and Repentance+) Boss Bumbino ingame.pngBumbino if he picks up enough coins) who drop or can drop active items upon defeat.
  • The Fallen is both visually and behaviorally similar to Krampus.
  • (except in Repentance and Repentance+)Despite the first phase of The Fallen having a death animation before splitting into clones, the clones themselves don't have a death animation. (in Repentance and Repentance+)The clones now have a death animation, like the main Fallen.
  • (except in Rebirth and Afterbirth) Previously, only Crusade would play when The Fallen appeared as Satan's first phase. As of Booster Pack #5, Cerebrum Dispersio also has a chance to play in this situation.
    • This also applies to when the Angels are fought normally (by bombing the Angel statues).
  • The Boss might represent Satan or another fallen angel who fell from grace and became evil.
  • The Boss might have 2 phases to showcase how fallen angels refuse to let go of sin.
  • The Fallen is tied with Krampus as having the highest Stage HP among all entities in the game.
  • Double Trouble Fallen encounters in The Womb/Utero do not require the player to have entered a Devil Room before. Upon defeat, they will still drop a Devil Room item.
  • The Fallen could appear in the alternative chapters in Antibirth.