Weegee

Weegee is one of the bosses in item asylum. He is a photoshop meme-based Luigi avatar found in the Mario game Mario is Missing!.
== Overview==
As stated earlier, Weegee takes the form of Luigi in his appearance from the DOS port of Mario is Missing, consisting of a lengthy body, long tope of brown hair, a green cap with an L sign at the center enclosed in a white circle, a Hungarian styled mustache, blue eyes, and an expression that is meant to reflect awkwardness and discomfort. His outfit consists of light blue overalls, a green undershirt, white gloves, and brown shoes.
==Lore==
There isn't much about lore because he only battles the players to reclaim popularity, relevancy, and other personal gain given that he is an old meme who started since 2007.Know Your Meme - The character's awkward posture and unwavering stare was first pointed out by a user named MonkeyInCloset on LUElinks forums, now known as End of the Internet, on August 11th, 2007., retrieved February 16th, 2022.
Another thing to note is that he did offer a deal to the Beta Devs once bringing him back to popularity, which slightly worked according to PortABoi.
==Gameplay ==
Once the round has started, Weegee himself will trigger a cutscene where every player's screen will zoom in on his face with audio from the Weegee propaganda video playing. This cutscene lasts for 8 seconds before the fight begins. Weegee starts with 5000 base HP, adding 800 for every other player in the fight. Weegee does not directly attack the player, instead raining down projectiles on the arena and summoning minions. Weegee himself will occasionally teleport around the edge of the arena.
===Abilities===
Weegee has a total of six abilities/attacks, and with five in his first phase, and an extra one upon reaching his second phase.
* PokéballWeegee drops an explosive Pokéball directly on top of a random player. The ball can roll anywhere in the arena. The pokeball has an 8 second timer, after which it will explode, applying strong knockback and dealing 35 damage to anyone within its radius. 
*AnchorWeegee will drop an anchor. The impact location is indicated by a glowing circle on the floor that gradually fills with a brighter circle as the anchor descends. The anchor deals 27.5 damage and applies strong knockback to anyone caught in its impact radius.
*ToasterWeegee will drop toasters at random locations in the arena. They take a few seconds to activate, and their activation is precluded with a voice line saying "You know what they say." Once activated, they play the voice line "All toasters toast toast!", and the toaster will form a damaging electrical field with cyan particles that quickly deals 15 damage to players inside of it. The toasters will despawn after a short period of time.
*Summon Weegee MinionWeegee summons a minion that attempts to chase down a player and punch them. Any time a minion is summoned, a distorted "Weegee" will be heard. Killing a minion causes Weegee to take 25 damage. Multiple minions can be spawned at once.
*WarpWeegee's only form of movement. He will teleport to any side of the arena. There is a chance that he may instead quickly warp with minimal cooldown three times instead of once.
*"Die."This attack is limited to phase 2 of the fight. Weegee's eyes will flash red and all players in the server will hear Ganon saying "Die". All players will be set to 1 HP and temporarily have automatic healing disabled.
==Strategy==
Weegee is typically placed yards away from the players, meaning most types of melee, and a few ranged weapons are ineffective against the boss. Long reach ranged items are recommended to used when fighting against Weegee, most effectively, automatic and low cooldown weapons such as the chicago, or distressed red ball. NPCs known as Weegee Minions also spawn occasionally to attack players who happen to be at a close proximity. Any weapon that deals decent knockback is ideal, such as the Comically large weapons, the pineapple, the mine, etc. Another tip is to react quickly if an attack is close by.
==Perfect Run Strategy==
Weegee is extremely difficult without specific weapons or loadouts, and beating him with Perfect Run on gives you the achievement demonetized and the ranged weapon anchor from the sky. Follow this strategy to beat him effectively.
#Pray and hope for fish or other weapons that have decent knockback. If you don't get it, hope for Ssg-08 or pixel gun, and a good speed item like 10 hour burst, skeleton juice, or any other.
#*Fish is the best weapon you can get in this boss as it will be effective against Weegee as this weapon can knockback his minions off the map. 2 other previously mentioned weapons are good for this boss, the ssg-08, as the it can be upgraded into the Awp, and the pixel gun can be upgraded into Pixel rifle, which have good damage. Awp deals ~150 damage with a headshot, and can also knock the minions off the map easily. If you have no speed item to pair with these weapons, then just try to dodge everything with jumps.
#**Minions can't hit you when you use fish because of its spherical hitbox. 
#***Weegee loses 25 health when a minion dies. This includes knocking them out the map. You do need to kill 200 of them, however.
#*If you get unlucky, other good melees such as real knife may suffice. 
#**If you get really unlucky, hope for a good ranged item (like distressed red ball or vampire knives) and a speed boosting item as your only other choice is to shoot Weegee directly.
#*Be very, VERY careful when using scales of horror or poser's katana's Counter, as countering any attack that isn't from a Weegee Minion will teleport you to Weegee and cause your literal downfall.
#*The best weapons for shooting Weegee directly are mostly weapons with fast fire rates such as chicago, kentucky, distressed red ball, and vampire knives.
#**vampire knives are extremely useful here, as the healing can make them very useful in phase 2 where Weegee starts spamming the "Die" attack.
#*Unlike other bosses, weegee has a very large hitbox, which means weapons with high spread like mad noob's shotgun, Trench shotgun, and other weapons like them are significantly more viable to use, and can take off large chunks of his health very quickly while handling weegee minions effectively.
#Zoom out your camera, Use Shiftlock and pay attention to your surroundings.
#*Zooming out your camera can let you see the entire map which can let you know where a hazard will land/activate/detonate. 
#**Pokéballs are harder to see. Make sure you don't zoom out to much.
#*Shiftlock gives you more survivability as you can turn more.
#*Use this strategy for the entirety of the boss.
#React fast to every ability, keep moving, don't stop. Items that provide extra walkspeed are highly recommended.
#*The anchors that fall down can be hard to react to, since it may be fast or slow to drop down. Nonetheless, keep on moving if one ever tries to drop on you.
#* The minions have a quite extensive hitbox and the same walkspeed as an unbuffed player. Keep on moving, especially on Phase 2, since one hit from them can cause your death. You may take a lot of damage or perhaps even die if you get hit by multiple minions. This is why items that provide extra walkspeed, are needed for dealing with these.
#**If you appear to not have an item that gives speed, but you have a good melee and ranged, you may multitask between Weegee and the minions. In other words, shoot Weegee with your ranged and knock the minions down if they are about to slam you, especially in a large crowd of them, although multitasking requires EXTREME co-ordination within you and your gameplay. If you make a mistake while multitasking, it may cause the end of the run.
#*Pokéballs are a big threat, as they could roll to you, exploding and most likely launching you off the map. React fast whenever you see these drop onto the arena.
#* Toasters aren't that much of a threat, but can kill you if you appear to have very low health and somehow accidentally step on one. Beware of those. 
#**Although not reliable, spam jumping across these can minimize the damage taken.
#*Keep on moving, even when Weegee is dead. The minions may kill you before you get sent back to the lobby, not resulting in achieving the badge and anchor from the sky.
#Be Careful during Phase 2.
#*Phase 2 gives Weegee the DIE ability. which reduces your HP to 1 and temporarily disables automatic healing. At that point, Any damage taken is a loss. You need to avoid ANYTHING that does damage.
#*Pay close attention to the map all the time, because the abilities get progressively faster.
#*Weapons like darkheart and vampire knives can help you heal to avoid dying from the Die move, since they can lifesteal. Though be careful on HOW you use the weapon. (M1, E ability, R ability...)
#Try doing the boss solo. The massive health scaling Weegee has makes besting him with multiple players, ESPECIALLY during Phase 2, multiple times more difficult.
==Trivia== 
*Most of the assets, if not the entire idea of the boss, were based on an old version of a Friday Night Funkin' mod that deals with the same character as an opponent.
**This can easily be proven by many of the assets such as the background being green which is the same background used in V3. The background music was an instrumental of the second song for the same mod. The icons from the V3 update were also used.
**The "Die." attack is a reference to the fourth song in the mod, where near the end, there's a section where Weegee says "Die." and leaves the player at 1 HP.
** Due to Roblox's audio privacy update, many of these direct references were lost.
*This boss makes many references to the editing style of classic YouTube Poops, specifically The Sky Had A Weegee.
**The original boss intro was a more direct reference to this YTP before being replaced by the Weegee propaganda video intro.
** Spongebob pours out a box of cereal and dusts it all away only to find Weegee at the bottom, who says Ganon's "You will die." voice line. This is promptly replaced by a pokeball which plays the WTF Boom meme and explodes.
**An anchor falls into Spongebob's house; in the YTP, Weegee is poorly pasted over it.
**While the toaster has no relation to The Sky Had A Weegee, it is taken from another commonly pooped source, an Hotel Mario cutscene.
*In v0.7.0, Weegee's appearance was changed to wear Christmas-themed attire. His cap was replaced with a hat resembling that of Santa Claus's, and he wore a red undershirt instead of a green one. The appearance of the toasters and anchors were also modified to be festively themed. The toasters were depicted to be a box with Christmas wrappings with red ribbons, and the anchors simply had candy cane textures on them.
**Similar to klevprime and ithor, Weegee has also been given a joke name from a bug report by a user in the JPX Studios Discord server nicknamed “Wesley boss”.
*This is the only boss to NOT switch to its losing icon at 50% HP, but rather around 33% HP.
==Audio==
<tabber>
|-|Current=
Song Information	
 	WEEGEE BOSS
File 	
BPM 	160
Song Length 	1:54
Composer 	Aden Mayo
Sound effects 	
 	Sound effects
Boss Intro 	
Weegee minion summon 1 	
Weegee minion summon 2 (Removed)	
Toaster sound 	
Pokeball sound 	
Die sound 	
Death sound 	
References 	Weegee propaganda videoWeegee sound effectSuper Mario World TV series Luigi quoteHotel Mario quote
Various audio clips
Ganon says die!
Luigi falling off bike
|-|Old=
Song Information	
 	Boss_Weegee
File 	
BPM 	157
Song Length 	1:39
Composer 	Stash club
Reference 	FNF - Weegee (instrumental)
Note(s) 	Removed due to a mass audio purge.
Sound effects 	
 	Sound effects
Old boss intro	
Reference 	YouTube Poop: The Sky Had A Weegee
</tabber>
==Gallery ==
<tabber>
|-|Current=
bandicam 2021-12-23 19-13-22-405.jpg|Weegee's Pokéball attack
bandicam 2022-05-25 07-42-24-420.jpg|Weegee's toaster attack
bandicam 2022-05-25 07-42-45-494.jpg|Weegee preparing an anchor attack
bandicam 2021-12-23 19-17-11-393.jpg|Weegee's anchor attack
Weegee Not Hurt.png|Icon
Weegee Hurt.png|Losing icon
|-|Christmas=
Jolly WEEGEE.png|Weegee summoning a Weegee Minion. Here, he holds a candy cane.
bandicam 2022-04-18 12-13-14-033.jpg|Weegee teleporting
Jolly pokeball.webp|Weegee summoning a present-themed Pokéball
Inactive toaster.webp|Weegee dropping a jolly toaster
Active toaster.webp|Ditto, but active
Christmas anchor.webp|Weegee dropping a peppermint anchor
ChristmasWeegee_normal_icon.png|Icon
ChristmasWeegee_losing_icon.png|Losing icon
|-|Old=
WeegeeFromFNF.png|Weegee summoning a minion, used as the normal down pose over at the mod, goes removed in the v0.8.0 update.
bandicam 2021-12-23 19-15-03-649.jpg|Weegee teleporting to the other side of the map
bandicam 2021-12-23 19-10-55-542.jpg|Weegee's toaster attack
bandicam 2021-12-23 19-16-17-311.jpg|Weegee preparing an anchor attack
Weegee_normal_icon.png|Icon
Weegee_losing_icon.png|Losing icon
</tabber>
==References==
Category:Bosses
Category:Based on media
Category:NPCs