Rottytops

**Rottytops** is a family member of a Zombie Clan. Rotty travels the land by caravan, threatening to eat peoples' brains. She has two brothers (Abner and Poe Cadaver). Rotty is obsessed with Shantae's brains and the thought of eating them.

Even among zombies, Rottytops and her brothers are considered bad news, but Rottytops genuinely cares for Shantae. Her true feelings for Shantae are revealed through her former identity when Shantae visits the Village of Lost Souls in *The Pirate's Curse*.

## Overview

### Personality

Rotty is a free spirit, being friendly, energetic, and headstrong. However, she is also extremely untrustworthy, crafty, and manipulative. From their first encounter, Rotty builds a complicated but mostly friendly relationship with Shantae. Although she initially threatens to eat her brains, she grows fond of the half-genie, mainly because Shantae won't run away from her like other people. Rottytops subsequently both helps her and deceives her over the course of the sequels, although it is revealed in *The Pirate's Curse* that she genuinely considers Shantae her best friend, but has trouble communicating it.

### Appearance

Being a zombie she has green skin and choppy, dark green hair, and red eyes. She has stitches on her left arm and right leg. She wears a short purple tank top that exposes her midriff, a yellow headband, skull earrings, a matching skull buckle on her brown belt, navy blue jean shorts, and a black choker around her neck. Her idle sprite animation has her hands on her hips as she swings back and forth in place.

## Abilities

* **Head Throw**- Rotty can throw her own head and reform in the place where the head was thrown to. When aiming her head, her surroundings appear to freeze, except for some moving platforms. Throughout the entire attack, she is immune to damage. She will lose health if her head is thrown down a pit or towards spikes.While this move deals a solid five damage, its main use is as a platforming ability to get past dark magic barriers.
* **Leg Pull** - Rotty pulls out her leg and uses it as a weapon. It is the strongest weaponand can deal eight damage points at maximun level.
* **Regeneration**- By using **Special Move** that consumes her **Dream Magic,**Rotty can eat a brain and heal herself and the whole team.
* **Loyalty**- It is revealed by Bolo in the battle against Nega-Shantae that, despite her recklessness and unpredictability, Rotty will never quit if the case concerns her friends.

## TMNT X Pokemon

Rotty loves to tease the other girls in the group and joins Katsuragi on the groping escapade. During missions, she works with Katsuragi and Asuka.

## Trivia

* Rottytops is a play on the words Rotten Tops since her undead brain is assumedly rotten.
* Abner has stated, in '”Pirate's Curse”, that Shantae is a positive influence on Rottytops.
* Rottytops enjoys dressing up. During Half-Genie Hero, she's overjoyed with the prospect of acting as Shantae's pit crew and wearing the outfit for it. Similarly, in “Pirate's Curse”, she's the only one who seems to be enjoying herself wearing the royal outfit on Tan Line Island.
* Rottytops is shown to have some sort of fondness towards Bolo as seen in the Good ending of “Pirate’s Curse” as she flirts with him by calling him snack cakes which is a nickname she only uses towards the people that she’s very fond of, and in the “Friends to the End” DLC she seems to find enjoyment in teasing him a lot for his misfortunes.