Vincent Van Gore, the Starving Artist (Japanese: セニョールプジイ Señor Pujī) is a Portrait Ghost who appears in the game Luigi's Mansion. He is a painter who has the ability to bring his paintings to life. He is the boss of Area Four (the attic of the mansion) and the last ghost fought before King Boo.
Defeating Van Gore rewards Luigi with the key to the Secret Altar.
Story[]
Vincent Van Gore is responsible for creating the minor ghosts that flooded the rooms and halls of Luigi's Mansion. After being released by King Boo, Vincent Van Gore locked himself in The Artist's Studio, giving the key to his room to Sir Weston in the Cold Storage, and bringing his ghastly works of art to life. These ghosts filled the mansion, providing the backbone of King Boo's forces. As such, Van Gore was a fundamental player in King Boo's quest to capture both Mario and Luigi. Without the constant supply of ghosts, Luigi would have had a much easier time defeating King Boo and the portrait ghosts.
After battling past almost all of the mansion's ghosts, Luigi ultimately discovered Vincent Van Gore, the source of the Ectoplasmic enemies, in The Artist's Studio on the third floor of the mansion. However, instead of fighting Luigi directly, Van Gore brought his latest works of art to life to attack the green-clad plumber. As such, Luigi had to exterminate seven sets of minor ghosts (with three ghosts per set) before he could face off against the artist himself.
After Luigi eliminated all twenty-one ghost creations, Vincent Van Gore became deeply saddened by the loss of his artwork. In this state of depression, Van Gore's heart was exposed and Luigi easily sucked up the spirit with his Poltergust 3000. The ghost artist barely put up a fight, weakly pulling as he was being sucked in. After Van Gore was defeated, Luigi acquired the Secret Altar key needed to open the door to the Secret Altar.
Abilities[]
- Life-Giving: Van Gore can paint both beings and inanimate objects to create them in the real world.
- Poison Mushroom: He carries a poison mushroom.
Van Gore's ghosts[]
In battle, Van Gore used sets of ghosts to attack Luigi; each group consisted of three of the same kind of species (five in the PAL Hidden Mansion). In order, the seven following types of ghosts were:
- Gold Ghost
- Purple Puncher
- Blue Twirler
- Red Grabbing Ghost
- Red Shy Guy Ghost
- Garbage Can Ghost
- Purple Bomber
Trivia[]
- Vincent Van Gore is the only ghost that isn't an area boss to house a "special key".
- A normal key makes a triumphant sound when picked up and is a gold-bronze, while special keys each have a card suit on them and make a deep, organ-played musical fanfare of the game's main theme (in a major key) when received.
- He can be considered a mid-boss, though, as he has many phases to his battle.
- Vincent Van Gore's name is a pun on Vincent Van Gogh, who was an artist.
- Vincent Van Gore's accent suggests that he might be French, although Vincent Van Gogh was Dutch, but died in France.
- He's 59 years old, despite the fact that Vincent Van Gogh committed suicide at age 37.
- He's the only Portrait Ghost known to be in his 50s.
- His biography reveals that he has been an artist for at least 30 years, but has not managed to sell a single painting during that time.
- Unlike Van Gore, Vincent Van Gogh actually sold a painting, but only a single one.
- "Gore" essentially means blood and tissue that has been removed from the body traumatically.
- He's the only known ghost to be able to take ghosts out of paintings without the use of machinery.
- Several theories state that Vincent Van Gore actually created all the portrait ghosts in order to create himself a "family". It could possibly be a reference to the real-life Van Gogh, who lived in loneliness. These theories remain unconfirmed.
- The portraits seen within the Parlor in Area 1, are likely to be the source of this theory since they depict a likeness to other portrait ghosts including Vincent Van Gore at the rooms top center.
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Luigi's Mansion[]
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