Could Pac-Man eat the Ghost of Christmas Past? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by Stern@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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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"

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[-] Stern@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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/Y%C5%ABrei

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.

[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, but Freddy can kill people. Most ghosts can barely move things. Just a little slime and some rattling chains.

[-] Stern@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Sadako can kill people as well. Pac's ghosts kill him too.

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