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This article is about the playable grapheme. For other uses, see ??? (Disambiguation).

???, too known as the Blue Babe, is a character unlocked by defeating Mom'south Heart 10 times. He starts with three Soul Hearts, and his wellness meter is unique in that he cannot gain cerise eye containers. If an item would grant him a red heart container (including an empty one), it adds a Soul Center instead.

1 Notes
2 Particular Interactions
- ii.1 Positive
- 2.2 Negative
3 Unlockable Achievements
4 Trivia
5 Gallery

Notes [ ]

Sleeping on a bed volition give ??? three Soul Hearts.
Enemies who deal total hearts of damage can exist very dangerous in the early floors of the game.
The Poop - While non the nearly useful item, it tin can allow ??? to cross small gaps by bombing the Poop from the reverse side, much like 1 would for Rocks. Furthermore, in rooms with non-flight enemies that hunt the actor (except Spiders), the poop can be used in a corner of the room making ??? untouchable, allowing the player to impale them without taking damage (if the player moves away from the pile of Poop generated, this will no longer piece of work).
- Other utilities to the poop includes generating pickup, repelling projectiles once per room and destroying retracted spikes, benefitting ???'s defensive playstyles.
Bone Hearts grant an empty Bone Heart upon pickup, only they cannot be refilled using Reddish Hearts.

Particular Interactions [ ]

Positive [ ]

Abaddon costs 3 Soul Hearts and grants six Blackness Hearts, damage up, fear shot, and no negative effects to ???. Abaddon tin be bought safely regardless of electric current health, considering its toll can be deducted from the acquired Black Hearts retroactively.
Ankh is effectively a 1up! for ???.
Athame tin be used to produce blackness hearts upon taking damage.
Assurance of Steel pills or V - The Hierophant grant two soul hearts, both of which are more than useful than normal HP up items.
The Rune of Dagaz grants 1 soul heart likewise as lifting any curses.
The Xi - Strength card gives ??? a permanent soul eye.
Book of Revelations Spawns soul hearts.
Ceremonial Robes costs iii Soul Hearts and grants three Black Hearts and damage upward. Like Abaddon, this particular is always rubber to take.
Crown of Light volition always actuate when entering a room, but still deactivates afterwards taking damage.
Mitre and Daemon'south Tail replace useless Red Hearts with Soul and Black Hearts respectively.
Dark Bum converts useless Red Hearts into Black Hearts and Spiders.
Dead Cat volition ready Soul Hearts to 1, but can exist used to gain devil deals by sacrificing the extra lives.
Dim Bulb is able to be activated every room due to the single charge on The Poop, providing a consistent stat heave.
Gimpy has a take chances to spawn Soul Hearts when hitting.
Hallowed Ground turns all The Poop uses into holy poops.
Lazarus' Rags causes ??? to be resurrected every bit Lazarus Risen when he dies, assuasive the gathering of heart containers. Once this happens, nevertheless, you are no longer playing as ???, and therefore cannot get whatever of his achievements/unlocks. The same effect happens with the use of Judas' Shadow.
Maw of the Void can produce Black Hearts.
Midas' Touch makes The Poop create Aureate Poop.
Monkey Paw will drop 3 Blackness Hearts, but must take harm for each 1 to spawn.
Petrified Poop is useful early on to get more pickups from The Poop every room.
The Polaroid and The Negative will e'er actuate when taking damage.
The Relic, which is mostly useful, is especially useful to ??? every bit it spawns Soul Hearts.
Satanic Bible generates Black Hearts.
- Using Satanic Bible at present likewise causes boss items to turn into devil deals that cost hearts, and so it may be best to concur off on using it until subsequently the boss fight.
Serpent's Kiss can produce Black Hearts by poisoning enemies.
- Serpent's Osculation now only produces Black Hearts from contact damage poison, making it slightly less useful for ???.
Squeezy and Mr. Dolly increase ???'s tears and tin can grant Soul Hearts.
Whore of Babylon is e'er active.
Birthright volition double the effectiveness of HP upgrades, meaning ??? gains twice as many soul hearts every bit normal.
- This can exist exploited with Converter to generate unlimited HP.
Fortune Cookie tin can requite a soul heart upon utilize.

Negative [ ]

Items that directly add Red Hearts to the health bar, such equally Yum Heart, Yuck Heart or full health pills, are useless. However eternal hearts even so act equally an actress half a center and become a full soul center at the end of the floor making Prayer Card viable.
Blood Donation Machines and Devil Beggars are riskier, as they deplete health that is harder to furnish.
Cursed Skull will automatically teleport ??? out of the room upon taking any impairment, as he doesn't have whatsoever Cherry-red Hearts. This tin exist used to easily warp out of the Boss Blitz room, just is more often than not an annoyance.
- Works but at half a soul heart.
Glass Cannon will bring ??? downwardly to half a Soul Heart, and non give dorsum any health upon leaving a room due to ???'s lack of Red Hearts. This item essentially takes abroad most of the player's health in exchange for a unmarried high damage tear.
- This outcome no longer applies in Repentance, making it a more viable choice. Even so, caution should be used, as taking impairment will cause all subsequent damage taken in the room to be ii full soul hearts, making this particularly risky for ???.
Guppy'southward Mitt, since requiring Red Hearts to convert, would be a useless item to concur (simply should still be picked up and swapped back to go credit towards the Guppy transformation). Guppy'southward Paw may even so exist used to activate Cleaved Remote.
Judas' Tongue doesn't lower the price of Soul Middle Devil deals.
Little C.H.A.D. is useless unless paired with Dark Bum or Apple tree of Sodom, where it becomes very useful.

Unlockable Achievements [ ]

Trivia [ ]

??? appears in the original Binding of Isaac.
- ???'s unlock requirements in Rebirth are the same in the original Binding of Isaac.
The proper noun "Blue Baby" had not appeared in the game itself until the Afterbirth expansion, with a co-op baby named as such.
???'due south common nickname, Blue Infant, is a reference to blueish babe syndrome, in which a infant'due south peel complexion appears blue from a lack of oxygen in its blood due to a congenital heart defect.
Many of Edmund's older flash games from Newgrounds feature ??? and Blood brother Bobby. ??? was Edmund's mascot from 1996-2002.
In several cutscenes, Isaac is depicted suffocating within a chest. ??? is beginning seen inside an identical chest, and is the follow up boss after Isaac. Blue pare tone is typically used to show suffocation, and X optics imply that the character is either knocked out or deceased.
- After death, the bowels of the deceased will loosen, causing them to defecate themselves. This is near likely the reason ??? starts with The Poop.
Unlike many of the other characters, ??? does not appear in the Bible or any religious scripture. He is the showtime graphic symbol with this stardom, and the only one to announced in the original Bounden of Isaac - the second being The Lost in Rebirth, third being Keeper in Afterbirth and fourth being The Forgotten in Afterbirth+.
The Ankh will resurrect any grapheme as ???, fifty-fifty before he is unlocked.
Although "Blue Baby" is considered an unofficial nickname for ???, the character is referred to by this name in some of the game'southward code. One case of this is the paradigm file for the character, named character_006_bluebaby.
???'s look originally came from Dead Baby Dressup, one of Edmund McMillen's starting time Flash games.
???'s starting wellness is listed as "-1" on the character selection screen.
As a secret character, ??? does non announced on the character select screen until unlocked.

Gallery [ ]

Isaac briefly appears as ??? during the cutscene preceding The Animate being.
???'s transition screen portrait.

??? (Character) Unlocks

Mom's Centre Unlocks

Characters

Rebirth

Afterbirth

Afterbirth †

Repentance

Tainted

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

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