It Lives
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78.1


Gateway to Sheol/Cathedral
Gateway to ??? (Time under 30:00)
Gateway to The Void if unlocked (10% Chance)
It Lives is an unlockable alternative form of Mom's Heart. After being unlocked, it will always appear as the boss of the second floor of the fourth chapter, permanently replacing Mom's Heart. It is a stronger version of Mom's Heart that summons bosses alongside regular chapter 4 enemies.
Despite being a major boss, It Lives doesn't belong to any Ending. instead, it opens up entrances to both Sheol and the
Cathedral, as well as
??? if beaten in under 30 minutes.
Behavior[edit | edit source]
It Lives behaves exactly like Mom's Heart, except that it spawns Knights instead of Swingers and it spawns bosses from previous chapters, three/
four in particular:
- Fistula (as of Repentance)
- Chub
- Polycephalus
- Teratoma
It also shoots some double projectiles when retreating upwards after spawning enemies/bosses.
Gallery[edit | edit source]
It Lives as one of Delirium's forms.
Unlockable Achievements[edit | edit source]
Flooded Caves - Defeat It Lives 16 times.
Dank Depths - Defeat It Lives 21 times.
Scarred Womb - Defeat It Lives 30 times.
- Wrapped Baby -
Defeat Mom's Heart on Hard mode as
Azazel
Defeat Mom's Heart on Hard mode as
Lazarus.
- Begotten Baby -
Defeat Mom's Heart on Hard mode as
Lazarus
Defeat Mom's Heart on Hard mode as
Azazel.
- Godhead - Earn all
5 /
9 (except the cent sign for Ultra Greed) /
10 /
12 completion marks on Hard mode as
The Lost.
Notes[edit | edit source]
- Just like Mom and Mom's Heart, using The Bible against It Lives will kill it instantly.
Isaac can still encounter It Lives in the nightmare boss wave of chapter 4 in Greed/Greedier mode if it has not been unlocked.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- It Lives appeared in the original The Binding of Isaac.
- The music that plays during this fight is titled Ventricide.[1] Ventricide is a portmanteau formed from the word ventricle (chamber of the heart) and the suffix -cide, which denotes an act of killing. This theme is used in other tracks, such as Matricide, Hericide, and Infanticide.
- Ventricide could also be a junction of the prefix ventr-, which could denote "belly", "stomach", or "womb" with the suffix -cide.
- It Lives, according to the developers, takes the shape of what Isaac looked like as a fetus.
- It Lives makes the same sounds as Mom's Heart.
- Like Mom's Heart, if Isaac takes damage from It Lives'
Brimstone attack, Mom's laugh can be heard.
- Like Mom's Heart, if Isaac takes damage from It Lives'
- The unlock note for It Lives states "Your futures past awaits.", referencing Time Fcuk, another game by Edmund Mcmillen.
During the versus screen, It Lives' enemy/boss-spawning sound can be heard. It Lives is one of seven bosses that can be heard during the versus screen, the other six being
The Stain,
The Forsaken,
Big Horn, Mom, Mom's Heart (pre-Repentance) and
Mother.
Bugs[edit | edit source]
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