Presume he had just ate a power pellet, of course.
Followup matchups for your consideration:
- Slimer, from “Ghostbusters”
- Sadako, from “The Ring”
- Freddy Krueger, from “Nightmare on Elm Street”
- The clown from “It”
- A ring wraith from “Lord of the Rings”
Consider how eating the power pellets turns the ghosts blue, and how the ghosts regain their original colour when they respawn, even within the power pellet timer. The natural conclusion is that the pellets don’t change pacman, but change the ghosts.
As such, unless the power pellets affect ALL ghosts the same way they affect the pacman ghosts, pacman could not eat any ghost other than the pacman ghosts.
The natural conclusion is that the pellets don’t change pacman, but change the ghosts.
The power pellets only affect ghosts after said pellets are eaten by Pac-Man, as the ghosts can float over pellets without issue. Thus I think its a safe assumption that making the ghosts material form edible one time, temporarily is a result of Pac-Man’s magnified power rather then the pellet itself.
As such, unless the power pellets affect ALL ghosts the same way they affect the pacman ghosts…
Hence the question.
While the ghosts don’t activate the pellets, they also don’t eat the regular pellets. They interact with nothing but Pacman, the only living thing to be found. Even if they could, the only effect is to weaken the ghosts, so they have no reason to.
If the pellet changed Pacman, it makes no sense that he could eat one ghost and not another. And yet, when a ghost respawns, Pacman is unable to eat that one, even as he manages to eat the others. The change has to be within the ghosts, reverting with time or with resurrection.
As such, we have no reason to believe Pacman can eat any ghost unless that ghost reacts to the power pellet. Whether those ghosts react to a power pellet? Insufficient data for meaningful answer.
Even if they could, the only effect is to weaken the ghosts, so they have no reason to.
But, this establishes that the pellets have to be acted upon by an outside force to affect the ghosts. It might also be reasonable to assume that this action may be exclusive to the Pac family.
If the pellet changed Pacman, it makes no sense that he could eat one ghost and not another. And yet, when a ghost respawns, Pacman is unable to eat that one, even as he manages to eat the others.
It makes sense if the usage of the power pellet allows Pac-Man to affect the ghosts material form temporarily.
I like to imagine a situation where Pac-Man set off a paint bomb in a room covering everyones clothes with blue paint that makes those clothes edible. He eats a dudes now blue shirt, dude freaks out, goes home, changes his shirt and comes back. Everyone else still has edible shirts but not dude. Maybe someone else goes to the bathroom and washes off the paint on their shirt after a bit under the faucet. Their shirt is also no longer edible.
Whether those ghosts react to a power pellet? Insufficient data for meaningful answer.
Good thing you’re not submitting this to a journal for peer review then. ;)
I love this conversation so much.
This is grade AA, top tier shitpost which means over analyzing is my specialty.
First I read it as “Ghost of Chris Pratt” and the answer is yes, it would be a normal ghost.
Then I read it correctly as Ghost of Christmas Past, and my answer is - maybe, but the ghost is able to bring the victim into events of their past lives, I think he could take Pac-Man back to a time where he ate a ghost that he didn’t realize what he had done, make him regret eating ghosts and prevent the ghost of Christmas past from being eaten at all.
- Slimer - yes, regular ghost, just messy and he’ll need a napkin.
- Do you mean Samara? Or is this a different The Ring. If Samara - yes, seems to follow the same rules as the ghosts in Pac-Man.
- Yes, he could, but that would imply Pac-man sleeps and dreams. If he doesn’t do those things how will he interact with Freddy pointy hands?
- No. The clown from “It” is an established demon, not a deceased person bound to this world.
- No. The ring wraiths are a weird kind of undead in that they are multiplaner and still both men yet their bodies no longer exist in our plane, yet have some sort of magic clothing that gives them form in our world. Essentially they didn’t die, so they aren’t ghosts.
Over analyzing shitposts is my specialty
Do you mean Samara? Or is this a different The Ring.
We can both be right on this one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Yamamura
Sadako Yamamura (山村 貞子, Yamamura Sadako), reimagined as Park Eun-seo (Korean: 박은서) and Samara Morgan for their respective adaptations, is the main antagonist of Koji Suzuki’s Ring novel series and the film franchise of the same name.
Oooooo neat!
NEXT TIME ON DEATH BATTLE!!
What silliness. Of course it can only eat the real ghosts, Christmas past and Slimer. I mean puhlease.
Freddy feels more ghosty or at least vengeful spirity (which really is just deluxe ghost imo) to me considering he was a dude who died and lacks physical form most of the time.
Sadako is described as having the appearance of a Yurei, which is analguous to a ghost in western culture. If your only condition for Pac chomping is “can be reasonably described as a ghost” then she’s deffo there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Yamamura#Appearance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yūrei
It and Ring Wraiths are admittedly further down the occult scale but when I posted I figured heck, lets see what arguments folks got for 'em.
Yeah, but Freddy can kill people. Most ghosts can barely move things. Just a little slime and some rattling chains.
Sadako can kill people as well. Pac’s ghosts kill him too.
Listen…I have spoken. I realize this is an important topic so just trust me. I’m kind of an expert.
Could Pac-Man or Ms. Pac-Man eat Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington aka Nearly Headless Nick?
Presume he had just ate a power pellet, of course.
Unfortunately this assumption is problematic.
The answer is “no” because power pellets don’t exist. Sorry OP.
Neither does Pac-man, or ghosts. Gosh!
I mean, that was the joke, but I guess it didn’t work…
Classic whoosh moment lol.
