War

War is a Harbinger that can appear in all environments of Chapter 3 ( Depths, Necropolis, Dank Depths).

Behavior[]

Phase 1[]

Charges either left or right off-screen and continuing on from the opposite end of the screen. Continues until he has crossed the screen three times.
- He performs this attack more often if Isaac is to his left or right.
Shoots eight projectiles in all directions.
Ascends off-screen and summons 5 Troll Bombs.
- Returns from the side of the screen.

Phase 2[]

Once his health is below half, War's horse blows up, dropping War, who performs a sobbing animation.

War charges quickly at Isaac gradually building speed and making more tighter turns.
- Every time War loses around 1/3rd of his remaining HP in this phase he pauses briefly to sob before restarting this process.

War deals a whole heart of contact damage in both phases and during his charge.

Champion Versions []

Dark Grey: 15% larger with 25% more HP (625). Summons 2 Mega Troll Bombs when he ascends off-screen and summons a single Troll Bomb behind his path when he charges through the screen. When transforming into his second phase, he shoots 6 projectiles in all directions, as well as each time he stops chasing Isaac in this phase.

Gallery[]

War in-game.
War in his second phase.
War in his sobbing animation.
Dark Grey Champion War before Repentance.
Dark Grey Champion War in his second phase before Repentance.
War as one of Delirium's forms.

Unlockable achievements[]

The Book of Revelations - Defeat a Harbinger.

7 Seals - Defeat all 5 Harbingers.

Trivia[]

War appeared in the original The Binding of Isaac.
War is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse mentioned in the Bible.
In many depictions of War, he is shown holding a sword vertically [1], corresponding with why War's battle sprite shows him holding his hobby-horse vertically.
Although his appearance on the vs screen shows his hobby-horse as brown, it is red in-game.
War's "horse" appears more akin to a bull.
In the original game, War's face was round.
- This has been somewhat reverted in Repentance.
War can be seen wielding a Wire Coat Hanger as a weapon in one of the original game's concept arts.

Bosses
Chapter 1	Gemini • Steven • Blighted Ovum • Dingle • The Duke of Flies • Famine • Gurglings • The Haunt • Larry Jr. • Monstro • Pin • Widow • The Fallen • The Headless Horseman Dangle • Little Horn • Rag Man • Turdlings Baby Plum
Chapter 1.5	Lil Blub • Wormwood • The Rainmaker • Min-Min • Clog • Colostomia • Turdlet
Chapter 2	Fistula • Chub • C.H.A.D. • Carrion Queen • Dark One • Gurdy • Gurdy Jr. • The Hollow • The Husk • Mega Fatty • Mega Maw • Peep • Pestilence • Polycephalus • The Wretched • The Fallen • The Headless Horseman The Forsaken • The Frail • The Stain Big Horn • Rag Mega Bumbino
Chapter 2.5	Reap Creep • Tuff Twins • Hornfel • Great Gideon • Singe • The Shell • The Pile
Chapter 3	The Adversary • The Bloat • The Cage • The Gate • Monstro II • Gish • Loki • Mask of Infamy • War • The Fallen • The Headless Horseman • Mom Brownie Sisters Vis Reap Creep • The Pile
Chapter 3.5	The Siren • The Heretic • The Visage • The Horny Boys • Mom • Mom's Heart
Chapter 4	Blastocyst • The Bloat • Conquest • Daddy Long Legs • Triachnid • Death • Lokii • Mama Gurdy • Mr. Fred • Scolex • Teratoma • The Fallen • The Headless Horseman • Mom's Heart • It Lives Sisters Vis • The Matriarch
???	Hush
Corpse	Chimera • The Scourge • Rotgut • Mother
Chapter 5	Satan • Isaac
Chapter 6	??? • The Lamb • Mega Satan
The Void	Delirium
Home	Dogma • The Beast • Ultra Death • Ultra Famine • Ultra Pestilence • Ultra War
Greed Mode	Ultra Greed Ultra Greedier

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