Missing Poster

 

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Trinket ID
5.350.23

Unlock Method
Defeat The Lamb as Isaac

The Missing Poster is an unlockable trinket.

Effects

• If Isaac dies in a Sacrifice Room while holding it, a particular puzzle piece will be displayed as the cause of his death on his last will.
• Dying in a Sacrifice Room while holding it will unlock The Lost.
• If Isaac dies while holding this trinket and has already unlocked The Lost, he will be revived in the previous room as The Lost and Missing Poster will be consumed.
  • If Tainted Lost dies while holding the trinket, he does not become the normal Lost.

Notes

• None of the effects will occur during any Challenges.
• Missing Poster has the lowest priority of all resurrection items.
• The Lost will not be unlocked if the player is in a Victory Lap or RERUN.
• Even if Holy Mantle has been unlocked as one of The Lost's starting items, if any character dies while holding the Missing Poster, The Lost will not hold the Holy Mantle upon revival.
• If Gulp!, Smelter, or Marbles were used to absorb the poster, its effects will apply and can be used to unlock The Lost and respawn (but the effect still only applies once).

Puzzle Pieces

• The puzzle piece will belong to one of four jigsaw puzzles. To which one is indicated by a tiny grey symbol to the top left of the piece.
  • The symbol can either be a pixel, a 2x2px square, a 3x3 px square, or four pixels arranged like a plus-sign.
• Each jigsaw puzzle displays an altered last will for the characters Isaac, Magdalene, Judas, or Azazel respectively.
  • Each picture on the last will shows in which way Isaac has to die when playing as the respective character to unlock The Lost.

In-game Footage

Note that this footage only applies to the Rebirth version of this trinket and does not show the changes made to it in Afterbirth.

Unlockable Achievements

• 

  The Lost - It's complicated
  Die in a Sacrifice Room while holding Missing Poster.

Trivia

• The first scenes in Ending 15 and Ending 17 show The Missing Poster pinned to a utility pole, with a silhouette of Isaac's mother who seems to be searching for Isaac in the background.
• There are many puzzle pieces in total. Assembling all of the jigsaw puzzles and figuring out what they meant was initially designed to be a collaborative effort of the community. As such, Edmund and Tyrone had openly expressed disappointment towards the datamining.

Seeds

PC 38JD 9HNG (Curse room adjacent to spawn, drops after clearing the room) (doesn't work in repentance)

Switch OBZH H2Y0 (Missing Poster in a Slot Machine in Flooded Caves II, Sacrifice Room in Necropolis II, both floors have Curse of The Lost)

Gallery

• 

  The Missing Poster in Ending 15.

External links

• Reddit post with details about the puzzle pieces, including many images

Revival Items

Items:

• 1up!
• Ankh
• Dead Cat
• Guppy's Collar
• Inner Child
• Judas' Shadow
• Lazarus' Rags

Trinkets:

• Broken Ankh
• Missing Poster