Epic Fetus

**Epic Fetus** is a Special unlockable passive item.

## Effects

* Isaac's tears are replaced with guided missiles, like those used by the Doctor's Remote.
	+ Missiles deal 20 times Isaac's damage.

## Notes

* Missiles benefit from most bomb-enhancing effects.
* Epic Fetus overrides most items in the game and has the highest priority of all of them, over Brimstone and Mom's Knife.
* On PC, using the mouse and keyboard when obtaining this item can be helpful due to the ability to precisely target a specific area in the room, avoiding the sensitivity of a joystick or the limited directions of the arrow keys.
* Isaac's tear delay determines how quickly a new missile or missile set can be fired after the previous one has landed. Barring very high tear delay, this has little effect on damage rate due to the delay of the missiles themselves.

## Synergies

* Template:I: Makes two missiles drop one after the other.
* Template:I / Template:I: Each missile has a 50% chance to deal 20 or 40 points more damage, respectively.
* Template:I: Grants each missile the poison effect.
	+ Bob's Curse + Template:I: Lasers turn green, but do not poison enemies like the bombs do.
* Template:I: Each missile explosion applies the Butt Bombs effect.
* Template:I: Fires 10 lasers with each explosion
* Conjoined (Transformation): Makes three missiles drop one after the other.
* The Forgotten: The charge attack is replaced by a missile in the Forgotten's hand and a crosshair that may be moved. The missile is thrown at the crosshair when all attack buttons are released, with an additional melee swing in the same direction. The melee attack is unaffected.
* Template:I: Damage increased by about 31%, though tear delay also increases considerably.
* Template:I: Isaac becomes immune to his own airstrikes.
* Template:I: Every explosion from a crosshair leave a small, lasting pool of creep.
	+ : The explosion leaves a large pool of green creep behind.
* Template:I: Enemies get drawn towards the crosshair.
* Template:I: Cursor slides towards enemies
* Template:I: Explosion shoots technology beams in all directions, similar to Tammy's Head. When firing/moving the cursor, you still shoot your Technology laser.
* Template:I: Both the Technology 2 laser, and the Epic Fetus missiles will be active.
* Template:I: Explosion shoots technology beams in all directions, similar to Tammy's Head.

## Interactions

* Template:I: Retains damage and knock back boost.
* Template:I: Overridden by Epic Fetus.
* Template:I: Overridden by Epic Fetus.
* Template:I: Overridden by Epic Fetus.
	+ : Lasers fire in all directions upon impact of a missile.
* Template:I: Slightly lowers tear delay, which has little impact with Epic Fetus.
* Template:I: Overridden by Epic Fetus.
* Template:I: Overridden by Epic Fetus.
* Template:I: Creates a fire every time a shot lands.
* Homing tears: Overridden by Epic Fetus.
	+ : Cross-hair slowly moves towards enemies.
* Template:I: Creates a fire every time a shot lands.
* Template:I: Slower fire rate, each cross-hair will cause three consecutive air strikes to happen. The cross-hair may still be moved after the first one lands.
* Template:I: Greatly increases damage and turns missiles poisonous.
	+ Template:I + Template:I: Tear Blast tears explode and can damage Isaac.
* Lilith: Blindfold is overridden by Epic Fetus.
* Template:I: Four cross-hairs are produced around the player, firing four missiles instead of a single one. Having the Mutant Spider or the Inner Eye applies the same effect to each cross-hair.
* Template:I: Overridden by Epic Fetus.
* Template:I: Overridden by Epic Fetus.
	+ Adds 2 to 4 more crosshairs that orbit the main crosshair and fires a missile onto each crosshair.
* Template:I: A second missile will be symmetrically fired at the player's opposite side.
* Template:I: Overridden by Epic Fetus.
	+ : Missiles explode into a circle of knives.
* Template:I: Slower fire rate, each cross-hair will cause four consecutive air strikes to happen. The cross-hair may still be moved after the first one lands.
* Template:I: No effect.
* Template:I: Missiles fire a burst of tears where they land.
* Template:I: Overridden by Epic Fetus.
* Template:I: Missiles become poisonous.
* Template:I: Damage of missiles will be decreased accordingly, but unlike normal tears, the fire-rate will not increase.
* Template:I: Fires only normal tears, not missiles.
* Template:I: Overridden by Epic Fetus.
* Template:I: Control of the crosshair is rotated 45 degrees clockwise. Fires 2 missiles in rapid succession.

## Trivia

* In the original game it was possible to control the crosshair with the mouse. This was removed in Rebirth.
	+ Mouse control can however be re-enabled by editing the `options.ini` file in `C:\Users\<username>\Documents\My Games\Binding of Isaac Afterbirth/Rebirth` and changing the line `MouseControl=0` into `MouseControl=1`. Also useful for The Ludovico Technique.
* The Dr. Fetus and Epic Fetus items are based off of Dr. Fetus, the main villain in Super Meat Boy which is a game by Edmund McMillen (the creator of The *Binding of Isaac: Rebirth*).
* This item is used in Challenge #11 (Glass Cannon).

## Seeds

 PC  GOBD W8TB (Treasure Room adjacent to spawn)

 PS4  8ETR M2M9 (First floor treasure room)

 Vita  8G4J JFH8 (Treasure Room adjacent to spawn)

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