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(in Afterbirth † and Repentance)

Shade is an unlockable passive item added in The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth †.

Effects[ | ]

  • Grants a shadow familiar that follows Isaac's movements on a (except in Repentance) 1-second/(in Repentance) 0.66-second delay and deals (except in Repentance) 2/(in Repentance) 5 contact damage per tick, or (except in Repentance) 30/(in Repentance) 75 damage per second, to enemies.
  • Shade is absorbed by Isaac after dealing (except in Repentance) over 600 damage (in Repentance) over 666 damage.
    • The familiar disappears and turns into friendly dark My ShadowChargers, similar to those spawned by Collectible My Shadow iconMy Shadow.
    • Isaac will now do equal contact damage at the same rate as the Shade used to.
      • Collectible BFFS! iconBFFS! will continue to work on Isaac even after absorption, doubling damage dealt.
      • Isaac's contact damage increases when absorbing multiple Shade familiars.

Notes[ | ]

  • If other familiars that move with a similar pattern such as Collectible Multidimensional Baby iconMultidimensional Baby have been collected before the Shade, it will follow them instead with further delay.
  • If Isaac gains a method of flight, Shade will gain wings.
  • Cannot be removed with Collectible Sacrificial Altar iconSacrificial Altar.

Interactions[ | ]

  • (in Repentance)Ace Cards: Friendly monsters are still affected by Ace Cards.
  • (in Repentance)Collectible Blood Puppy iconBlood Puppy: Either angry version of Blood Puppy will target friendly Chargers as well and can drag them along with it when it charges them. Blood Puppy cannot damage friendly Chargers however friendly Chargers can damage Blood Puppy despite not targeting it outright.
  • Collectible Broken Modem iconBroken Modem: Broken Modem also affects friendly chargers.
  • (in Repentance)Collectible Eraser iconEraser: Erasing a ChargerCharger will prevent all newly created friendly Chargers from spawning as the item spawns a normal Charger before changing it to the special My Shadow variant.
  • (in Repentance) Collectible Ghost Bombs iconGhost Bombs / Collectible Hungry Soul iconHungry Soul / Collectible Purgatory iconPurgatory / Collectible Vade Retro iconVade Retro: Explosions from ghosts can kill friendly chargers.

In-game Footage[ | ]

Trivia[ | ]

  • Collectible Obsessed Fan iconObsessed Fan behaves similarly to Shade before the disappearance, but with a longer delay on following Isaac's movements.
  • If playing as Character Dark Judas iconDark Judas or Character Tainted Judas iconTainted Judas, the shade familiar will have red eyes instead of white ones.
  • Shade's pickup quote may be a reference to the horror film "It Follows".

Bugs[ | ]

Bug Bug! (in Repentance) Shade will revert back to it's non-absorbed form after escaping Mother's ShadowMother's Shadow.


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